The Genius (89 page)

Sister Carrie (1900) is a novel by Theodore Dreiser about a
young country girl who moves to the big city where she starts
realizing her own American Dream by first becoming a mistress to
men that she perceives as superior and later as a famous
actress.

Character sketches, combining the best of biography with the
finest of narrative - short and illustrative.

Prentice Mulford was instrumental in the founding of the popular
philosophy, New Thought, along with other notable writers including
Ralph Waldo Emerson. Mulford's book, Thoughts are Things served as
a guide to this new belief system and is still popular today.

Lost treasure, buried by early admirers of Napoleon Bonaparte,
is at the center of this incredible adventure.

A man mysteriously murdered at night, the figures 2x4 x 1x2
scrawled on his shirt front, a broken shoe-polish label beside him.
Cleek solved it. Can you?

An ex-cracksman turned Scotland Yard detective, Cleek's slim and
faultlessly dressed form is topped by an india-rubber-like face, of
which he has remarkable control. With the power to distort and
transform his visage and mimic any mannerism he desires, Cleek
(with the assistance of his cockney assistant "Dollops") makes a
super natural detective!

Vast gold robberies--a murder of which a nobleman stands
accused, with jealousy for the motive--these apparently unrelated
mysteries give scope for Cleek's most ingenious solutions.

What defense could she raise against mutant science—telepathy,
invisibility, teleportation—especially since Earth was not aware of
its danger!

In this collection of shorter stories we visit Malay pirates,
have a couple of tales of India, a shipwreck off the Channel
Islands and a bursting dam in California, and finish off escaping
from captivity in China.

Pandora's Box (1904) (Die Büchse der Pandora) is a play by the
German dramatist Frank Wedekind. It forms the second part of his
pairing of 'Lulu' plays (the first is Earth Spirit [1895]), both of
which depict a society "riven by the demands of lust and
greed".
G. W. Pabst directed a silent film version (Pandora's Box), which
was loosely based on the play, in 1929. Both plays together also
formed the basis for the opera Lulu by Alban Berg in 1935
(premiered posthumously in 1937).
In the original manuscript, dating from 1894, the 'Lulu' drama was
in five acts and subtitled 'A Monster Tragedy'. Wedekind
subsequently divided the work into two plays: Earth Spirit (German:
Erdgeist, first printed in 1895) and Pandora's Box (German: Die
Büchse der Pandora). It is now customary in theatre performances to
run the two plays together, in abridged form, under the title Lulu.
Wedekind is known to have taken his inspiration from at least two
sources: the pantomime Lulu by Félicien Champsaur, which he saw in
Paris in the early 1890s, and the sex murders of Jack the Ripper in
London in 1888.
The premiere of Pandora's Box, a restricted performance due to
difficulties with the censor, took place in Nuremberg on 1 February
1904. The 1905 Viennese premiere, again restricted, was instigated
by the satirist Karl Kraus. In Vienna Lulu was played by Tilly
Newes, later to become Wedekind's wife, with the part of Jack the
Ripper played by Wedekind himself.